Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at University of Southern California

If you are interested in studying dental hygiene/hygienist, you may want to check out the program at University of Southern California. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year. Of the 155 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Southern California in 2021, 30 of them were dental hygiene/hygienist majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Dental Hygiene/Hygienist section at the bottom of this page.

USC Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene

USC Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the dental hygiene progam at USC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The dental hygiene major at USC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Dental Hygiene/Hygienist. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Master’s Degree Schools	14
Most Focused Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Schools	294

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in dental hygiene from USC. This is the #14 most popular school for dental hygiene master’s degree candidates in the country.

Dental Hygiene Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dental hygiene majors at University of Southern California.

USC Dental Hygiene/Hygienist Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 30 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in dental hygiene from USC. About 17% were men and 83% were women. The typical dental hygiene bachelor's degree program is made up of only 5% men. So male students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 12% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its dental hygiene bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Southern California with a bachelor's in dental hygiene.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	13
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

USC also has a doctoral program available in dental hygiene. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Dental Hygiene Grads May Go Into

A degree in dental hygiene can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Dental Hygienists	22,240	$100,830
Health Specialties Professors	11,540	$161,770

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.